December 4, 2012 11:44 AM
Typhoon Bopha smashes into southern Phillippines; more than 40,000 people in shelters
Typhoon Bopha smashed into the southern Philippines today, uprooting trees and bringing drenching rains as more than 40,000 people crammed into shelters to escape the storm's onslaught. Bopha, packing gusts of up to 210 kilometres an hour, made landfall on Mindanao's east coast at dawn, ra...